Travis read AAPL's press release - Rhapsody is not MacOS 10
Considering S Jobs' baby is NeXT and all AAPL's zecks are NeXT folks there can be only 3 possible
reasons for today's OS disaster:
1. He wants the stock price lowered for his options
2. He is working a deal with MSFT to sell Rhapsody
3. He is working a deal with IBM to sell AAPL
Can you believe Mac 10 in a year and 1/2 -- if so bring on BE OS .
Regards,
Jim K.
OS Disaster? OS Salvation. People who talk about MS going to Rhapsody were deluding themselves. People who dream that MS would dump NT/95/98 for Rhapsody are so far off the map it's unbelieveable. Running on Intel is not great in and of itself if it means the OS dies in the transition.
Anyway, I've seen Rhapsody portrayed in so many strange lights it's hard to even pick on one. However, this might add clarity:
Rhapsody does not equal Yellow Box. Rhapsody is Yellow Box + Mach.
Mac OS X is not Rhapsody. Mac OS X = Carbon + Yellow Box + Mach.
Carbon is not all of Mac OS. Carbon = Mac OS 8 API - cruft.
Yellow Box for Windows = Yellow Box + Windows 95/NT.
WebObjects is going strong. They are doing some great work with Java.
So, in short, Yellow Box may still exist and be cross-platform. We shall see. I did notice one article that said Mac OS X will *not* feature Display Postscript, which means it will break some of the current Yellow Box.
However, this is what Steve made clear today:
Apple's System Focus is on *Mac OS*. The goal: Mac OS X in Q3 1999. The method: Carbon, which will allow one code base for Mac OS 8.x and Mac OS X.
People who talk about the Red Box, this box, Jack-in-the-Box, Black Box are fun, but it's not productive for business planning, and it's even less so for investors. |
